Introduction to Employment Services

Work and Income provides a range of employment and training assistance to help clients gain paid employment. These include:

• one-to-one assistance with job search and preparation to enter employment
• employment or training assistance that helps clients to prepare for work, to find a job, or to enter employment
• referral of clients to vacancies that are notified to Work and Income
• subsidies (paid for a limited period) that assist employers with the cost of wages paid to a client they employ
• assistance for clients to set up their own business, including access to business development advice, and to subsidies (paid for a limited period) that assist with initial capital requirements or operating costs
• Transition to Work assistance, which assists clients with meeting the costs of finding, taking up and retaining paid employment.